find command and prune

[dictum9]

This is on hp-ux 11.0

I need to run find and exclude NFS, CDFS as well as a few directories. I have the following command but it does not exclude dir1 nor dir2, why is that?


find / \( -fstype nfs -o -fstype cdfs -o -path /dir1 -o -path /dir2 \) -prune -print

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[Pete Randall]

Try -name rather than -path.


Pete

[Kent Ostby]

The way that's written, it's ONLY going to find those things.

[Kent Ostby]

Sorry that last line was terrible grammer.

The way that's written, it's only going to find those paths.

[dictum9]

I have the following and it still does not work, meaning it still find directories /dir1 and /dir2.
What can be done to fix it?


find / ! \( -fstype nfs -o -fstype cdfs -o -name /dir1 -o -name /dir2 \) -print

[john korterman]

Hi,

prune does not exclude, try the not operator instead, e.g.:

# find / -type f \( ! -fstype nfs ! -fstype cdfs ! -path "/dir1/*" ! -path "/dir2/*" \)

regards,
John K.

[Rodney Hills · Accepted solution]

Try-
find / ! \( -fstype nfs -o -fstype cdfs -o -path "/dir1/*" -o -path "/dir2/*" \) -print

HTH

Rod Hills

[Rodney Hills]

Actually, I think this should work better-
find / \( -fstype nfs -o -fstype cdfs -o -path /dir1 -o -path /dir2 \) -prune -o -print

Same as what you had before, only put "-o" between -prune and -print.

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[dictum9]

find / ! \( -fstype nfs -o -fstype cdfs -o -path "/dir1/*" -o -path "/dir2/*" \) -print

This one worked, thank you. Turns out you don't need prune. Still a mystery to me why prune didn't work.

[Geoff Wild]

Why not just do:

find / -fsonly vxfs -name FILENAME

Rgds...Geoff

[Dennis Handly]

>Why not just do: find / -fsonly vxfs -name FILENAME

That won't exclude those two directory paths.

>Turns out you don't need -prune. 

-prune is needed so you don't keep finding (and excluding) files under the highest directory possible.